When figs are in season, Angel Cakes will feature this Fig Honey Goat Cheese cupcake.

Something tells us TJ Robinson is smiling up in that big gingerbread house in the sky.

The Victorian in West Oakland that for 36 years housed the Louisiana-born cook’s memorable restaurant, TJ’s Gingerbread House, reopened today with a theme just as sweet as TJ’s in 1974.

It’s Angel Cakes, a cupcake shop owned and run by East Bay baker-caterer Jen Angel. She’s been baking cupcakes commercially since 2008, but this is her first retail shop.

Day One has been a big success, Angel said between customers. “We sold about 200 in the first two hours,” so they kept baking throughout the day. The Meyer lemon cupcakes were the big hit (“We sold out right away”) but the Grapefruit Miso specialty flavor was popular too.

Angel focuses on flavor combos, with the website list numbering more than 50 rotating options. (Call in advance if you have a particular flavor in mind.) Among them are an Old Fashioned Cocktail cupcake that mimics the drink with bourbon, orange zest and brandied cherry, and Brian’s Thai, which is spiced with galangal, coconut, kaffir lime leaf and chile.

Her standard cupcake flavors are chocolate, vanilla bean, Meyer lemon, red velvet and salted chocolate. The “fancy” ones include coconut, snickerdoodle, carrot cake and seasonal fruit/spice concoctions. Angel didn’t even have to add a TJ tribute cupcake to the menu; she was already making gingerbread or (seasonally) gingerbread-cranberry ones.